Wednesday, 1 May 2013

X-Wing: Elite Pilot Skills- Marksmanship

Elite Pilot Skills- Marksmanship

Hi guys, i felt you all needed to see this, this is originally from Clint over at the the metal bikini.com so all credit goes to him for this!

Marksmanship (3)Card Text:
When attacking this round, you may change one of your <eyeball>
results to a <crit> and all of your other <eyeball> results
to <hits>. Usage in game: Similar to Focus, but automatically bestows a Crit result instead of just hits.Action?: YesAt
a glance, this is basically paying 3 points for a Focus Action, but one
of the eyeballs you rolled becomes a crit instead of just a hit. This
is fairly significant in and of itself as crits can be pretty nasty and
of course, often have an ongoing effect that really screws up the
victim’s day. All that said, bear in mind that if you’re shooting at
somebody who still has shields, this ability will do absolutely nothing
for you a Focus wouldn’t as crits have no different effect than hits on
shields. Digging
deeper, the use I see for Marksmanship is stacking with a Target Lock,
where you can re-roll the results you want, regardless of what they are.
Of course, as Marksmanship is an action, you’d need to have the TL from
a previous round. If you’ve got one though, you could use Marksmanship
with Proton Torpedoes and you’re practically assured of registering all
hits and at least one crit. It’d also go nicely with Concussion Missiles
as Marksmanship switches <eyeball> results and Concussion
Missiles already has a built-in rule to change a <blank> result to
a hit. Again though, kind of a waste on ships with shields left.The
thing that jumps out at me is you need kind of a lot of variables to be
in conjunction contextually for this to work well enough to 1) make you
take it over the more versatile Focus Action and 2) feel like you got
your points worth. This is one of those cards I look at and wonder if
it’s true value isn’t more apparent once Wave 2 has dropped. Otherwise,
unless you’re just so much better at movement/ maneuvering than your
opponent that you find yourself behind him all the time and wish you had
a Focus action with more pop, I can’t see actually paying for
Marksmanship over the free and available to every ship Focus. That
said, a case could be make for giving Skywalker Marksmanship as his
special ability is kind of a Focus-lite that only works on defense.

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